Peter Falk Quotes
My father's whole life was work. He had a retail store in Ossining, New York, and I mean, he was down there at 6:15 every morning. The store didn't open until 9, but he hadda be down there. That's all he knew.
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My house looks like it was decorated by a 14-year old with a platinum American Express card.
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I'm not the biggest comic book fan.
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Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives.
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Conscience is the inner voice that warns us that someone might be looking.
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I think it is the fact that birds are two-legged, like us, which gives them something of our balance and gesture and makes them nearer to us.
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I'm not denying that it's exciting to have a play on Broadway.
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I can't say I'm having trouble with my husband or that I have a stubborn child.
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It is very wrong to sleep in your make-up, but when you wake up the next morning, I think it looks very good.
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When their city was occupied by the Gauls, and the Romans, who were besieged in the Capitol, had made military engines from the hair of the women, they dedicated a temple to the Bald Venus.
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The only ones who like Milton Berle are his mother - and the public.
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For me, what I really want to come out of it is to show people that I can hold together a movie, be the number one character and play someone who is twenty or twenty-one.
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I think every girl's dream is to find a bad boy at the right time, when he wants to not be bad anymore.
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Normally, young writers have all the time in the world and they don't always use it well.
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I did improv for about 10 years professionally, and before that, I had done it in high school as part of an improv team. It was definitely a big part of my upbringing.
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If I had taken a doctoral degree, it would have stifled any writing capacity.
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The money I earn from films means I can help the people I want to help - you can do a lot of good if you want to.
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I want to be like Robin Williams, really. It's all the different characters he does, all the different voices.
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I had to give myself permission to act, then others agreed.
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The voices on the record, that was trying to treat my voice like guitar players treat guitar tones.
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It is only when there is the supervision and critical oversight from the people that the government will be in a position to do an even better job, and employees of government departments will be the true public servants of the people.
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If the novelist shares his or her problems with the characters, he or she is able to study his personal unconscious.
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I never got in this business, in cinema, to make horror movies. They arrived on my doorstep and I got typecast. Which was fine, I enjoy it, but I got into this business to make westerns. And the kind of westerns I used to see, they died. So that didn't work out.
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If we hear, in our inner ear, a voice saying we are failures, we are losers, we will never amount to anything, this is the voice of Satan trying to convince the bride that the groom does not love her. This is not the voice of God. God woos us with kindness. He changes out of character with the passion of his love.
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My father's whole life was work. He had a retail store in Ossining, New York, and I mean, he was down there at 6:15 every morning. The store didn't open until 9, but he hadda be down there. That's all he knew.
